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A PSP firmware down grader to be released soon?

Yippee!

This is the moment many of us have been waiting for. Maxconsole.net has released a video that seems to show a program that lets you take out the PSP firmware allowing you to roll back to the 1.50 version allowing all your homebrews and emulators to run. For those of us holding off on trying the 2.0 firmware because of our love of playing NES games on our PSP this is great news, and we didn't even have to wait that long for it.

It seems this program will simply strip your PSP of any firmware at all, so its looking like you'll have to keep a copy of each firmware version on your computer so you can up and downgrade depending on what you are planning to do with your PSP that day. Here's hoping we soon get a launcher program that lets up choose our firmware version on the fly.

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